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Show H AVVO.MI.VC; COAL IS OIK MAHKUT H Union l'aclllc Withdraws Itock B Springs l-'ucl I'nmi Local H Tiude. V 1 , Salt Lake, March 27. After Juno H 1 the Union l'aclllc Coal Company H will cease to Bell coimnerclnl coal H from Its mines In the Itock Springs B district, as tho Union Pacific railroad B pystcm will roqutro overy ton of coal W It can produco In tho mlnos of that H district. As a result tho Utah mines B -will have thrown open to them a ter- V, rltory demanding more than 100,000 H Ions of lump coal a yeur, in addition H to a heavy touuago ot slack coal. Of- V ficlal nnuouncoment ot tho retire- K ment of tho Itock Springs mines B from the commercial coal trado was ft made yesterday. It was said, how- m, ever, that tho mines at Dlamoiulville m and the other mines In Wyoinln:; B would contlnuo to supply the commer H trade, H Oihh to Utah Mines. B With the Itock Springs mlnc3 out m of the commercial coal business, tho H southern Idaho and northern Utah H fields will bo opon to tho Utah mines H which have had to meet tho compo- IH tltlon of a great many ot the Wyom- B tug mines In these sections. Tho H Itock Springs mlnos cut into tho H Utah coal trado more than tho other3 H as the coal Is better suited for steam- H las purpoBoa. All of tho territory H from Ogden north to tho Idaho lino H and all of tho territory on the Butto' Hf line of the Oregon Short Lino and on H tho main lino of tho road west to Ht American Falls will bo opened to the K mines ot Carbon county. 1 The demands which have been H) made by the Union Pacific railroad H 7Btem, on tho .Itock Springs mlnos H re boon such 'that tho entire out B pal of tho mines has been requlrod B for the operation ot the systom. Tho tests which havo been mado by the road demonstrated this coal to bo tho host steam coal, and in view of tho heavy tralllc and conditions which nro bolng brought about-In International In-ternational affairs, together with the uncertainty of tralllc conditions noxt fall, tho Union Pacific Coal Company has set asldo tho Hock Springs mlnos for railroad purposes nlono. Tho offices of-fices of tho company are located in Omaha, and tho exact figures as to tho production of tho mines and tho amount of commercial coal produced aro not available. At tho Oregon Short Lino offices it was said that tho mlnos produced I a greater tonuago than any other mine In Wyoming, but that nothing could bo learned hero In regard to tho amount. Tho local agonts said that more Itock Springs coal cams into Salt Lako than from any othor Wyoming district. |